Pic Unrelated – My first Woxford Logo on a glass — filled with Momosuppai

Many homebrewers have wanderlust when it comes to recipes. With so many styles around, it’s really hard to just brew the same thing all of the time; though I do want to revisit recipes to improve upon them. I’ve never brewed a milk stout before; but when I decided that I would I knew that I wanted to start with a clone recipe of Left Hand Milk Stout.

After a bit of searching, I found a thread on homebrewtalk with a starting point and then followed up by reading the BYO interview with the Left Hand brewer. After reading those, I pulled together my take on the recipe. The plan is to pull about a gallon of the finished beer and age it with some strawberries to make a Strawberry Milk Stout version that smells and tastes like it has strawberries. Ranger Creek brewstillery produces a wonderful beer in this style, but the presence of strawberry is something under dispute between my friends.

Vacca Forte will have the strawberries one way or another. Enjoy!